Wednesday 25 June 2014 Rāapa 25 Pipiri 2014

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  Disc 1

  ELGAR: The Wand of Youth, Suites 1 and 2; Dream Children Op 43; Nursery Suite - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557166)

  1:10 approx - Disc 2

  SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in C minor D958; Piano Sonata in Bb D960 - Claudio Arrau (pno) (Philips 432 307)

  2:20 approx - Disc 3

  STRAUSS: Guntram, Ewig einsam; Feurersnot, Love Scene; Die Frau ohne Schatten, Falke, Falke, du wiedergefundener; Intermezzo, Träumerei am Kamin; Die Liebe der Danae, In Syriens Glut…; Daphne, Was erblicke ich?; Die schweigsame Frau, Potpourri Der Rosenkavalier, Di rigori armato il seno; Intermezzo, Fröhlicher Beschluss - Ben Heppner (ten), Toronto SO/Andrew Davis (CBC SMCD 5142)

  3:25 approx - Disc 4

  Greatest Hits: Brass

  Works for brass ensemble by Monteverdi, G Gabrieli, Pachelbel, Desprez, Brade, Bach, Campra, Mozart, Friederich, Copland, Janácek, Dukas, Kodály, Mussorgsky - Various brass ensembles (Sony MLK 66708)

  4:50 approx - Disc 5

  KETÈLBEY: In a Persian Market; Wedgewood Blue; Chal Romano; In a Monastery Garden; The Clock and the Dresden Figures; Bells Across the Meadows Suite, In Holiday Mood; A Musical Jig-Saw; A Birthday Greeting; Algerian Scene; Cockney Suite, Bank Holiday, 'appy 'ampstead; Sunbeams and Butterflies; Knights of the King; Cockney Suite, At the Palais de Danse; In a Camp of the Ancient Britons, Fantasy - Peter Dawson, Raymond Newell (bars), Albert Sandler (vln); Albert Ketèlbey (pno), various ensembles (Pearl GEMM CD 9968)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 F-AD PHILIDOR: The Blacksmith, Overture - Prague Sinfonia/Christian Benda (Naxos 8.573066)

  VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in E RV265 - Café Zimmermann/Pablo Valetti (vln/dir) (Alpha 193)

  ELGAR: Chanson de nuit Op 15/1 - New Zealand SO/James Judd (Naxos 8.557577)

  HOFFMEISTER: Divertimento No 4 in Bb - Consortium Classicum (CPO 999 107)

  KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus - Royal Phil/Yuri Temirkanov (EMI CDC 7 47348)

  7:00 DVORÁK: Second movement, Largo, from Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World - New Zealand SO/Victor Yampolsky (Kiwi CD SLC 215)

  COSTE: Scherzo & Pastorale Op 10 - Duo Maccari-Pugliese (gtr duo) (Brilliant Classics 93898)

  QUILTER: Three English Dances - Northern Sinfonia of England/Richard Hickox (EMI CDC 7 49933)

  COPLAND: Vocalise for flute & piano - Alexa Still (fl), Susan DeWitt Smith (pno) (Koch International 3-7144)

  WAGNER: Forest Murmurs, from Siegfried - National SO, Washington DC/Antal Dorati (Decca 417 775)

  8:00 Beauty Spot: PÄRT: Fratres - Moray Welsh, Alastair Blayden, Michael Stirling (cellos) (Sony SK 61753)

  BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia - Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue (Reference Recordings-80 CD)

  LISZT: Nuages gris - Eugene Albulescu (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1446)

  DEBUSSY: Danse sacrée et danse profane - Claire Jones (harp), English CO/Paul Watkins (Signum SIGCD 216)

  CLIFFE: Cloud & Sunshine - Malmö Opera Orch/Christopher Fifield (Sterling CDS 1055)

• 9:00 AM. Composer of the Week

  TORU TAKEMITSU (1930-1996)

  Dreamtime - Bournemouth SO/Marin Alsop (Naxos 8.557760)

  To the Edge of Dream - John Williams (gtr), London Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony SK 46720)

  Voice - Robert Aitken (fl) (Naxos 8.555859)

  Quotation of Dream - Paul Crossley, Peter Serkin (pno duo), London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen (DG 453 495)

• 10:00 AM. The Immortal Beethoven

  The Complete Piano Sonatas & String Quartets

  Michael Houstoun (pno)

  BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas, No 2 in A Op 2/2; No 8 in C minor Op 13, Pathétique; No 18 in Eb Op 31/3; No 30 in E Op 109 (recorded in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

  See www.radionz.co.nz/beethoven

• 11:45 AM. The Works

  VERDI ed Pedretti: Capriccio for bassoon & orchestra - Andrea Magnani (bsn), Giuseppe Verdi SO, Milan/Riccardo Chailly (Decca 473 767)

• Noon Upbeat

  Music news & current affairs with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 1:30 PM. Recent Releases

  DOWLAND: Battle Galliard - Jakob Lindberg (lute) (BIS CD 2055)

  MUNDY: Adolescentulus sum ego - Magnificat/Philip Cave (Linn CKD 447)

  R JOHNSON: Fantasia - Jakob Lindberg (lute) (BIS CD 2055)

  BYRD: Tribue, Domine - Magnificat/Philip Cave (Linn CKD 447)

• 2:00 PM. Afternoon Requests

  BAX: Tintagel - BBC SO/Andrew Davis (BBC Music BBC MM 63)

  TCHAIKOVSKY arr Borge: The Tchaikovsky Medley - Victor Borge (pno/dir), orchestral accompaniment (Readers Digest 674 300)

  PIGOVAT: Sonata for viola and piano - Donald Maurice (vla), Richard Mapp (pno) (Atoll ACD 413)

  (Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)

• 3:00 PM. CD Masters

  Classic performances from the back catalogue

  MAHLER: Des Knaben Wunderhorn - Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo), Thomas Quasthoff (bar), Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado (DG 459 646)

• 4:05 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  BACH: Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV894 - Anthony Jennings (hpschd) (Trust MMT 2024)

  HAMILTON: Elysian Fields - New Zealand SO/Kenneth Young (Trust MMT 2037)

  PSATHAS: Matre's Dance - Jeremy Fitzsimons (perc), Stephen Gosling (pno) (Trust MMT 2047)

  PROKOFIEV: The Love for Three Oranges, Suite - NZSO National Youth Orch 2003/Lutz Köhler (National Youth Orch 2003)

• 5:00 PM. Cadenza

  MEYERBEER: Indian March, from L'Africaine - Barcelona SO/Michal Nesterowicz (Naxos 8.573076)

  FALLA arr M Nakariakov: Spanish Dance, from La Vida breve - Sergei Nakariakov (tpt), Alexander Markovich (pno) (Teldec 4509 94554)

  BIZET: Parle-moi de ma mère, from Carmen - Inva Mula (sop), Roberto Alagna (ten), Toulouse Capitole Orch/Michel Plasson (EMI 5 57503)

  THOMAS: Fantasia on David of the White Rock - Susan Drake (harp) (Hyperion CDA 66340)

  CHOPIN: Concert Rondo in F Op 14, Krakowiak - Eldar Nebolsin (pno), Warsaw Phil/Antoni Wit (Naxos 8.572335)

  6:00 VERDI: A Masked Ball, Overture - Vienna Phil/Giuseppe Sinopoli (Philips 411 469)

  Di' tu se fedele, from A Masked Ball - Jonas Kaufmann (ten), Piacenza Municipal Theatre Chorus, Parma Opera Orch/Pier Giorgio Morandi (Sony 88765 49200)

  LANNER: Court Ball Dances Op 161 - Orch of the Vienna Volksoper/Franz Bauer-Theussl (Philips 412 883)

  TCHAIKOVSKY trans Wild: At the Ball - Earl Wild (pno) (Sony SK 62036)

  ZIEHRER: Viennese Girls Waltz Op 388 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223817)

  ANDERSON: Belle of the Ball - Kim Criswell (sop), William Dazeley (bar), BBC Concert Orch/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559381)

  DEBUSSY arr Kondonassis: Romantic Waltz - Yolanda Kondonassis (harp) (Telarc CD 80581)

  LUMBYE: The Dream after the Ball - Tivoli SO/Giordano Bellincampi (Marco Polo 8.223744)

• 7:00 PM. Appointment

  Philosophy Talk

  Presented by Ken Taylor and John Perry of Stanford University

  Six programmes

  (5) Dangerous Demographics: The Challenges of an Aging Population

  All over the world, people are living longer and having fewer children than ever before. In less than two decades, one fifth of the US population will be over 65 years old. So what do these radically changed demographics mean for how we re-imagine the shape of a human life? Should we think of the rapidly increasing older population as a blessing or a burden? With guest Laura Carstensen (Ben Manilla Productions)

• 8:00 PM. Music Alive

  Early and Baroque Music

  Seven programmes

  (3) Orthodox Choir of the University of Joensuu, Byzantine Ensemble/Petri Nykänen, Jaakko Olkinuora

  ANON: Opening blessing; RUOTTINEN: Psalm 103; YASHVILI: Great Litany; SIDOROFF: Blessed is the man; TRAD: Psalm 140 and stichera (Byzantine chant); TRAD: Hail, gladdening light; Stichera of Lity; MOODY: Aposticha; RACHMANINOV: The Song of Symeon; TRAD: Apolytikion (Byzantine tone); Apolytikion (Znamennyi tone); RUOTTINEN: Apolytikion; ANON: Final blessing (recorded in the New Valamo Orthodox Monastery Church, Heinävesi, Finland by Radio Finland)

• 9:15 PM. Music Making in the Netherlands

  HAYDN: Baryton Trio No 106 in D - Netherlands Baryton Trio (Etcetera KTC 1313)

  MOZART: Piano Concerto No 15 in Bb K450 - Martin Helmchen (pno/dir), Netherlands CO (Pentatone PTC 5186 508)

  RICCI: Sinfonia in G Op 2/2 - Netherlands Radio CO/Jan Willem de Vriend (Etcetera KTC 1342)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  ROUSSEL: Serenade Op 30 - Susan Hoeppner (fl), Judy Loman (harp), Erika Raum (vln), Steven Dann (vla), Amanda Forsyth (cello) (Marquis 7418 13232)

  SOR: Morceau de concert in D Op 54 - William Carter (gtr) (Linn CKD 380)

  MYASKOVSKY: Sinfonietta in A Op 10 - Russian Federation State SO/Evgeny Svetlanov (Warner 2564 69689-8)

  11:00 CRUSELL: Clarinet Quartet No 3 in D Op 7 - Osmo Vänskä (cl), Pekka Kauppinen (vln), Anu Airas (vla), Ilkka Pälli (cello) (BIS CD 741)

  BRAHMS: Cello Sonata No 2 in F Op 99 - Ophélie Gaillard (cello), Louis Schwizgebel-Wang (pno) (Aparté AP 053)

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